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Mr. Bell is evidently a thorough-bred farmer, which is manifest 

 from the characteristic neatness and excellent management of every 

 part of his farm. He superintends in person, and puts on record 

 most of the operations of the dairy, the farm-yard, and of the field; 

 and is up and doing from early dawn to late at night. He keeps 

 an account of his receipts and expenditures, which, at the end of 

 the year, it is highly desirable he should make known to the pub- 

 lic. 



PHILIP SCHUYLER, Chairman. 



D. J. Browne, Secretary, 



COOPERS' FARM, Bushwick, L. I. 



The committee visited this farm on Friday, the 3d of September, 

 instant. Richard and John Cooper are young men, who came into 

 possession of a small farm not many years ago, in indifferent con- 

 dition. They have been industrious and intelligent, using thorough 

 culture, and the best manures, including guano, &c. They have 

 added several acres to their inheritance by purchase, at three hun- 

 dred dollars per acre, which they cultivate with the help of four men 

 and occasionally women and children to pick. They rendered to the 

 committee statements as follows, all of them evidently within bounds: 



Supplies to the markets of the city of New- York this summer, from 

 30 acres: 



Peas in pod, 342 bushels, at 6s., $256 50 



Potatoes, 1000 do 5s. 6d., 687 60 



do 500 do to dig. 



Tomatoes, 40 bushels per day whole crop. 



ripe, 1,400 bushels, at 4s., 720 00 



green, 100 do 2s., 25 00 



Beans (Lima and Bush) 1,200 bushels, (Lima 4,000 cedar 



poles) at 3s. 6d., 505 00 



Cabbages, 1| acres, 150 00 



Cayenne peppers, ^V of an acre, 24 bushels at 10s.,- - - 30 00 



Bush squashes and pumpkins, 27 00 



Beats, 10 00 



Corn, 3 acres. 

 Turnips, blue top, 1|. 

 Hay for their stock. 



